# Report 2021-07

## News

 - [XKEYSCORE Spy Program Revealed by Snowden Still a Problem](https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nmw4/xkeyscore-spy-program-revealed-by-snowden-is-still-a-problem-watchdog-says)
 - [EU Parliament lets companies look for child abuse on their platforms, with reservations](https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-platforms-child-sexual-abuse-reporting-law/)
 - [DRM Strikes Again: Ubisoft Makes Its Own Game Unplayable By Shutting Down DRM Server](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210706/10382147121/drm-strikes-again-ubisoft-makes-own-game-unplayable-shutting-down-drm-server.shtml)
 - [Debit Card Apps for Kids Are Collecting a Shocking Amount of Personal Data](https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avqx3/debit-card-apps-for-kids-are-collecting-a-shocking-amount-of-personal-data)
 - [Samsung Washing Machine App Requires Access to Your Contacts and Location](https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xqdw/samsung-washing-machine-app-requires-access-to-your-contacts-and-location)
 - [Retail stores are packed with unchecked facial recognition, civil rights organizations say](https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/14/22576236/retail-stores-facial-recognition-civil-rights-organizations-ban)
 - [Inside the Industry That Unmasks People at Scale](https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnmvz/industry-unmasks-at-scale-maid-to-pii)
 - [Ottawa tested facial recognition on millions of travellers at Toronto’s Pearson airport in 2016](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ottawa-tested-facial-recognition-on-millions-of-travellers-at-torontos/)
 - [Want your unemployment benefits? You may have to submit to facial recognition first](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/23/tech/idme-unemployment-facial-recognition/index.html)
 - [Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database](https://news.err.ee/1608291072/hacker-downloads-close-to-300-000-personal-id-photos)
 - [Cookies : sanction de 50 000 euros à l’encontre de la SOCIÉTÉ DU FIGARO](https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-sanction-de-50-000-euros-lencontre-de-la-societe-du-figaro)
 - [Diners Beware: That Meal May Cost You Your Privacy and Security](https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/diners-beware-that-meal-may-cost-you-your-privacy-and-security/)
 - [Amazon gets $888 million GDPR fine for behavioral advertising](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-gets-888-million-gdpr-fine-for-behavioral-advertising/)
 - [‘We don’t deserve this’: new app places US caregivers under digital surveillance](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/28/digital-surveillance-caregivers-artificial-intelligence)

## Data Breaches

 - [Fashion retailer Guess discloses data breach after ransomware attack](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fashion-retailer-guess-discloses-data-breach-after-ransomware-attack/)
 - [Thousands of Humana customers have their medical data leaked online by threat actors](https://cybernews.com/news/humana-insurance-customers-medical-data-leaked/)

## Paper/Report

 - [New EDRi report reveals depths of biometric mass surveillance in Germany, the Netherlands and Poland ](https://edri.org/our-work/new-edri-report-reveals-depths-of-biometric-mass-surveillance-in-germany-the-netherlands-and-poland/)
 - [WebGraph: Capturing Advertising and Tracking Information Flows for Robust Blocking](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11309v1)
 - [Differential Tracking Across Topical Webpages of Indian News Media](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04442)
